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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Judaism The innermost shrine of a tabernacle and temple; the holy of holies.
  2. n. An inviolably private place: The clubhouse was their sanctum sanctorum.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple.
  2. n. A person's most private retreat or sanctuary.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept
  2. n. a place of inviolable privacy

Etymologies

  1. From Latin sanctum sanctōrum, translating Hebrew  (qōdesh haqqŏdāshīm). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin sānctum sānctōrum (translation of Greek to hagion tōn hagiōn, translation of Hebrew qōdeš haqqodāšîm) : sānctum, holy place + sānctōrum, genitive pl. of sānctum, holy place. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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